Clifton College is a public school in the city of Bristol in South West England, founded in 1862.
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12 Facts About Clifton College
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Clifton College is one of the original 26 English public schools as defined by the Public Schools Yearbook of 1889.
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Clifton College is one of the few schools in the UK to have educated several Nobel laureates: Sir John Kendrew, who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1962; Sir John Hicks, winner of the 1972 Nobel Prize in Economics; and Sir Nevill Francis Mott, who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1977.
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Clifton College buildings were designed by the architect Charles Hansom ; his first design was for Big School and a proposed dining hall.
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Clifton College ground, known as the Close, played a role in the history of cricket and witnessed 13 of W G Grace's first-class hundreds for Gloucestershire in the County Championship.
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Clifton College employs a master called "The Marshal", whose sole job is to enforce discipline, attendance at classes and other school rules along with the general maintenance of safety of the pupils at the college.
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Clifton College has chapel services and a focus on Christianity, but for 125 years there was a Jewish boarding house, complete with kosher dining facilities and synagogue for boys in the Upper School.
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Clifton College has its own theatre, originally known as the Clifton College Theatre, but later renamed in honour of old-boy actor Michael Redgrave.
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Clifton College was convicted at Taunton Crown Court and sentenced to three years and nine months' imprisonment after admitting to 36 counts of taking, making and possessing indecent images of children.
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Clifton College subsequently commissioned an independent expert to undertake a thorough review of safeguarding at the school, culminating in a report which it published in full.
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Clifton College Register is the official set of records held for Clifton College in Bristol.
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